List of Leiden University people

• Piet Aalberse, politician • Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, theologian • John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States • Princess Aimée of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven-Söhngen • Nebahat Albayrak, politician • Johannes Alberti, theologian • Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, anatomist • Alexander, Prince of Orange • Josette Altmann Borbón, First Lady of Costa Rica 1994–1998 • Tinde van Andel, ethnobotanist • Princess Anita of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven-van Eijk • Sophia Antoniadis, first female professor at Leiden • Ayaan Hirsi Ali, activist • János Apáczai Csere, mathematician • Jacobus Arminius, theologian • Tobias Asser, Nobel laureate (Peace 1911) • Jimly Asshiddiqie, 1st Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia • Touraj Atabaki, academic == B ==

• Caspar Barlaeus, theologian • Johann Bartsch, physician • Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands 1980–2013 • Johann Peter Berg, German Protestant theologian, historian, and Orientalist • Alexander Johan Berman, theologian and literary critic • Joost Berman, lawyer, judge and poet • Kune Biezeveld, theologian • C. Jouco Bleeker, scholar of religion • Nicolaas Bloembergen, Nobel laureate (Physics 1981) • Thomas Blondeau, novelist • Leonard Blussé, historian • Herman Boerhaave, physician • Herman Bavinck, theologian • Bart Bok, astronomer • Frits Bolkestein, Netherlands Deputy Prime Minister 2005–06 • Gerardus Johannes Petrus Josephus Bolland, philosopher • Jannie Borst, cancer immunologist • Ben Bot, politician • Alexander Boswell, judge • Rolf Bremmer, academic • Laurens Jan Brinkhorst, politician • Thomas Browne, writer • Sebald Justinus Brugmans, botanist • Ian Buruma, writer • Kofi Abrefa Busia, Prime Minister of Ghana 1969–72 • Ditmir Bushati, Albanian politician • John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, U.K. Prime Minister 1762–63 • Paulus Buys, Grand Pensionary of Holland 1572–84 • Boediono, Vice President of Indonesia == C ==

• Archibald Cameron, Jacobite physician • Hendrik Casimir, physicist • Lisa Cheng, Chair Professor of Linguistics • Carolus Clusius, botanist • Jacques Cohen, embryologist • Job Cohen, politician • Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands • Jodocus Crull, miscellaneous writer • Petrus Cunaeus, academic • Janus Henricus Donker Curtius, last Opperhoofd of the Dutch trading post in Japan (1852–1855) == D ==

• Baron d'Holbach, philosopher • Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Netherlands Prime Minister 1918–25, 1929–33 • Michiel Jan de Goeje, orientalist • Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz, physicist • Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, 11th Secretary-General of NATO • Pieter de la Court, economist • René Descartes, philosopher and mathematician • Willem de Sitter, physicist • Gijs de Vries, politician • Jouke de Vries, academic • Hendrik de Wit, botanist • Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland 1653–72 • Tim de Zeeuw, astronomer • Nicolaas Diederichs, President of South Africa 1975–78 • René Diekstra, psychologist • Kanta Dihal, research scientist and author • Edsger W. Dijkstra, computer scientist • Djumhana Wiriaatmadja, Prime Minister of Pasundan 1949–1950 • Volkert Doeksen, CEO • Ana Dolidze, lawyer • Janus Dousa, statesman • Otto Duintjer, philosopher == E ==

• Paul Ehrenfest, physicist • Willem Einthoven, Nobel laureate (Medicine 1924) • Albert Einstein, Nobel laureate (Physics 1921) • Willem Anthony Engelbrecht, jurist and colonial administrator • Simon Episcopius, theologian • Paul Sophus Epstein, physicist == F ==

• Enrico Fermi, Nobel laureate (Physics 1938) • Henry Fielding, novelist • Horst Fischer, lawyer • Paul Fleming, poet • Prince Floris of Orange-Nassau • Justin Fox (born 1964), American financial journalist, commentator, and writer • John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, jurist • Prince Frederick of the Netherlands • Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg == G ==

• Richard D. Gill, professor of mathematical statistics • Thomas Girdlestone, physician • Franciscus Gomarus, theologian • Samuel Goudsmit, physicist • Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff, diplomat, statesman • Gerrit de Graeff (I.) van Zuid-Polsbroek, patrician, politician • Jacob Dircksz de Graeff, politician, burgomaster of Amsterdam • Johann Georg Graevius, academic • Christian Greco, Egyptologist • Richard T. Griffiths, historian • Jane Grogan, immunologist and cancer researcher • Jacobus Gronovius, academic • Hugo Grotius, jurist • Robert van Gulik, orientalist, diplomat, and writer, of e.g. the Judge Dee historical mysteries == H ==

• Hendrik Jacob Hamaker, jurist • Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX, Vice-President of Indonesia 1973–78 • Mohammad Hatta, First Vice President of Indonesia • David Hartley (the Younger), politician • Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, writer, resistance fighter, RAF pilot • Daniel Heinsius, scholar • Tiberius Hemsterhuis, philologist • Paul Hermann, botanist and physician • Felienne Hermans, computer scientist • Johannes Hevelius, astronomer and jurist • Nina den Heyer, politician in Bonaire • Rosalyn Higgins, President of the International Court of Justice • George Howe (physician), Scottish physician active in London; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians • Johannes Hudde, politician and mathematician • Johan Huizinga, historian • Christiaan Huygens, mathematician and physicist • Constantijn Huygens, Jr., statesman == I ==

• Michael Ignatieff, Canadian politician == J ==

• Maarten Jansen, academic • Marius Jeuken, theoretical biologist • Ernst de Jonge, lawyer, Olympic rower, resistance fighter • Stefanie Joosten, actress and model • Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands 1948–80 == K ==

• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Nobel laureate (Physics 1913) • Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern, linguist • Jetty Kleijn, computer scientist • Theodorus Klompe, geologist • Ko Kwat Tiong, lawyer, politician, Indonesian nationalist and civil servant • Pieter Kooijmans, judge of the International Court of Justice • Ton Koopman, conductor • Tjalling Charles Koopmans, Nobel laureate (Economics 1975) • Maarten Kossmann, linguist who specializes in Berber languages. • Hugo Krabbe, jurist and legal philosopher • Hendrik Anthony Kramers, physicist • Dirk Willem van Krevelen, chemical engineer and scientist • Abraham Kuijper, theologian and politician (Prime Minister 1901–05) • Aert H. Kuipers, linguist • Erik Kwakkel, codicologist == L ==

• Stefan Landsberger, Sinologist • Jona Lendering, historian • Hendrik Lenstra, mathematician • Arend Lijphart, political scientist • Justus Lipsius, philologist • J. H. A. Lokin, jurist • Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Nobel laureate (Physics 1902) == M ==

• Mohammad Syafaat Mintaredja, indonesian politician • Peter Mair, political scientist • Princess Margriet of the Netherlands • Paul-Henri Marron, French Reformed pastor • Eric Mazur, physicist • Richard Mead, physician • Jeroen Mettes, essayist and poet • Victor Muller, CEO == N ==

• William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz == O ==

• Alexander Ollongren, mathematician and astronomer • Jan Hendrik Oort, astronomer • Ivo Opstelten, politician • Cornelis Ouwehand, anthropologist == P ==

• Nathan Paget, Puritan physician • Peter Simon Pallas, zoologist • Antonie Pannekoek, astronomer and political theorist • Senarath Paranavithana, archaeologist and epigraphist • Thomas Parker, minister and scholar • Alexander Pechtold, Dutch politician • Perizonius, scholar • Phoa Liong Gie, Indonesian jurist, politician and newspaper owner • Frank N. Pieke, cultural anthropologist • Nicolaas Gerard Pierson, Dutch Prime Minister 1897–1901 • Jacob Piry, Indonesian communist and politician, Member of People's Representative Council (1956-1960) • Fransjohan Pretorius: historian of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), professor University of Pretoria • Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud, academic • Archibald Pitcairne, physician • Ronald Plasterk, scientist and politician • Prijono, politician == R ==

• Hans Ras, academic • Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt, botanist • Caspar Reuvens, archaeologist • John Robinson, Pilgrim Fathers pastor • Wil Roebroeks, archaeologist • Grzegorz Rozenberg, computer scientist • Olaus Rudbeck, scientist and university rector • Yana Rudenko, Ukrainian activist • David Ruhnken, scholar • Charlotte Rulkens, Dutch art historian • Mark Rutte, Netherlands Prime Minister 2010–24 == S ==

• Ali Sastroamidjojo, Prime Minister of Indonesia • Joseph Justus Scaliger, theologian and scholar • Henry G. Schermers, jurist • Edith Schippers, politician • Sander Schimmelpenninck, opinion writer & -commentator, and television presenter • Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Grand Pensionary of Holland 1805–6 • Marlou Schrover, professor of economic and social history • Gerard Schouw, politician • William Sherard, botanist • Boudewijn Sirks, academic • Jan Six, politician • Willebrord Snell, astronomer • Rudolph Snellius, mathematician and linguist • Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, orientalist • Achmad Soebardjo, diplomat • Soenario, politician • Noto Soeroto, poet, journalist and activist • Soetan Sjahrir, Prime Minister of Indonesia 1945–47 • Andreas Sparman, 17th-century Swedish court physician and author • Myles Standish, military leader • Jan Steen, painter • Miep Stegmann, first woman psychiatrist in Belgium • Simon Stevin, engineer, scientist • Martinus Theunis Steyn, lawyer, Orange Free State president • Pieter Steyn, Grand Pensionary of Holland 1749–72 • Dirk Jan Struik, mathematician • Franciscus Sylvius, physician and scientist • Albert Szent-Györgyi, Nobel laureate (Medicine 1937) == T ==

• Morris Tabaksblat, CEO • Igor Tamm, Nobel laureate (Physics 1958) • Paul-Peter Tak, immunologist • Julius Terpstra, politician • Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Netherlands Prime Minister 1871–72 • Jan Tinbergen, Nobel laureate (Economics 1969) • Nikolaas Tinbergen, Nobel laureate (Medicine 1973) • Isaac Titsingh, surgeon, scholar, merchant-trader and ambassador (Law 1765) • Jaana Toivari-Viitala, egyptologist and chair of the Finnish Egyptology Society • Nicolaes Tulp, surgeon and politician == U ==

• Christianus Cornelis Uhlenbeck, linguist and anthropologist == V ==